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Claims Tea Party has some lessons to learn from religious right political organizing and “Christian nation” ideology.

Benedict urges Catholic priests to use digital tech to teach and to evangelize, but the Holy Father may be underestimating the power of the non-hierarchical ethos of social media. Here’s hoping we might actually see a Vatican 2.0.

Ted Haggard, one of America’s most successful megachurch preachers, was officially separated from his church back in 2006. His wife and partner, Gayle, has stuck by his side through it all and has written a new book on the experience. RD spoke with her about their former church, their evolving views on homosexuality, and the future.

Religious broadcaster airs creationism series by convicted felon.

“Investment guru” and felon runs an “ex-gay” ministry, too.

Anti-government=pro-God.

In the 1990s angels became a spiritual accoutrement for prosperous yet troubled baby-boomers adrift in a suburban wasteland of McMansions and Lincoln Navigators. Do the angry angels of the new film Legion, with their roots in angelmania, mean that for many Americans God is absent? And do these creatures, heavenly and horrific, fill the vacuum?

We know that there is a significant “uncertain middle” of mainline clergy who would show leadership on LGBT issues if they were not afraid of stirring controversy in their congregations. A new campaign aims to jump start this missing conversation and to create space in American Christianity for a true welcoming of LGBT people and their families.

After a Tennessee news report touts anti-Muslim propaganda, a mosque is vandalized.

The ancient Greeks celebrated athletic contests because of their danger; we moderns are far more conflicted about the matter.